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I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

Kazuo Ishiguro

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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Beautiful Calm Wisdom
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
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Memories Memory Quite Writing
What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.
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Beautiful Calm Feeling Greatness Land
Because maybe, in a way, we didn’t leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it–unable quite to let each other go.
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Fear Leaving Ourselves Philosophy Quite Stay
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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Dreams Life Myself Spiritual
I’ve always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
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Fiction Greatness Interest Myself
I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.
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Difficult People Story Strange Thinking Time Writing
As with a wound on one’s own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things.
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Body Development Disturb Intimacy Possible Wound
There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life.
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Life Mistake Oneself Satisfaction
You’re always in a rush, or else you’re too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.
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Break Conversation Move Proper Sleep Talk Travel
I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.
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Book Myself Old Page Sea Thinking
You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
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Acceptance Growth People Process World
As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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Myself People Writing
It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
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Live Ourselves Philosophy Relationship
But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one’s past for such ‘turning points’, one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.
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Beginning Myself Search See Start
I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that’s vanished – the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.
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Childhood Disappear Growth Nostalgia Place Way

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

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I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

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